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My PhD project presentation: Inter-individual variations and their impact on language evolution
The main goal of my thesis is to study to which extent inter-individual variation can influence linguistic evolution and change, as well as the emergence of structure in languages. To do so, I will use different approaches:
- Agent-based modeling using an Iterated Learning approach with Bayesian agents, in structured networks with inter-individual variation;
- Experimental paradigms by studying the change, in real-time, of artificial languages in small groups of people whose interactions are structured as networks, and where I will implement inter-individual variation;
- A case study in order to study the effect of inter-individual variation in colour perception (and more specifically, in the blue-green range) on colour vocabulary.
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TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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 | 2020 - 2023 : PhD (ED NSCO) "Inter-individual variations and their effect on language evolution" directed by Dan Dediu, François Pellegrino (DDL, Lyon), as well as Kenny Smith (CLE, Edimbourg)
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (Lyon) and Center for Language Evolution (Edimbourg) |
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| 2020 : Master's degree in Cognitive Sciences, with high distinction
ENS Lyon
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| 2020 : Internship (2nd year of Master), where I studied the link between the environment and the color lexicon (see Master thesis)
Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (Lyon) |
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| 2019 : Internship on animal cognition, with a specific interest on automatic tracking methods
Animal Cognition and Neuroscience, CIMEC (Italie) |
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| 2020 : Internship on cognitive ergonomy for truck drivers
Renault Trucks (Lyon) |
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| 2017 : First year of Master in Computer Sciences, with high distinctions
Université Lyon 2, in exchange with NCU (National Central University, Taïwan) |
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| 2016 : Graduate degree in Cognitive Sciences, with high distinction
Université Lyon 2 |
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| 2014 : Internship in the team "Brain, behavior and learning lab"
Institut des sciences cognitives (Lyon) |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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| Linguistic variation |
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| Cognition and language |
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| Cultural and language evolution |
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AWARDS AND RESEARCH GRANTS
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| 2020 - 2023 Scholarship from the Doctoral School of Neuroscience and Cognition (ED 476 NSCo)
University of Lyon
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TEACHING
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| 2020: Teaching cognitive psychology to second-year bachelor students in psychology (2 classes - 40h a semester) |
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
SHOW LONG VERSION / SHORT VERSION
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PhDs and master thesis
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Josserand, M., 2020, "Speaking about colors: a cross-linguistic statistical investigation of the effects of the physical environment on the way languages conceptualize the color space", Mémoire Master 2, Mémoire Master 2 Sciences Cognitives, ENS Lyon, 83, 83 p.
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Journals
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Josserand, M., Tang, M., Pellegrino, F. & Dediu, D., 2021, "Interindividual variation refuses to go away: A Bayesian computer model of language change in communicative networks", Frontiers in Psychology, 12, pp. 2176 (doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.626118)
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Josserand, M., Meeussen, E., Majid, A. & Dediu, D., 2021, "Environment and culture shape both the colour lexicon and the genetics of colour perception", Scientific Reports, 11, pp. 19095 (doi:10.1038/s41598-021-98550-3, Full text)
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Development Neurocognition Disorders
Linguistic Diversity and its Sources
Description, Typology, Fieldwork
History and Ecology of Language and languages
04.72.72.65.36
mathilde.josserand@univ-lyon2.fr
